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Thanks to your advocacy efforts on our behalf, we're happy to report that the recently passed Omnibus Spending Bill includes a very small increase in funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities! While our work is not over with regards to the upcoming 2018 budget to be passed in the fall, the Omnibus Spending Bill represents an endorsement of the important work that the humanities do for our communities. These funds will continue to support our work of providing free access to authoritative content about Virginia's history and culture.

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Great Horses in a Great Race

Two thoroughbreds head for the finish line in this depiction of a horse race held in Brooklyn, New York, in June 1890. According to renowned thoroughbred pedigree expert Anne Peters, of Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Kentucky, by 1900 it was "virtually impossible" to find a pedigree of any "significant" American-bred thoroughbred that didn't have multiple strains of ancestry from the stallion Fearnought. Imported from England by John Baylor III in 1764, Fearnought became Virginia's premier breeding horse, and, according to a leading nineteenth-century chronicler of race horses, "one of the most distinguished stallions ever in America."